During a haunted summer 201 years ago, author Mary Shelley was inspired–in a waking dream–to write Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, a novel of galvanism, philosophy, and the re-animated dead that would change literature forever, giving birth to what we now call science fiction. As Mary Shelley later wrote, “I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life, and stir with an uneasy, half vital motion. Frightful must it be; for supremely frightful would be the effect of any human endeavour to mock the stupendous mechanism of the Creator of the world.”

“Corpsepaint is a bleak descent into the romance of drugs, decay, the occult, and black metal. This one will stay with you like the voice of a choir singing from the surface of long dead distant planets.” –Christopher Slatsky, author of Alectryomancer and Other Weird Tales pic.twitter.com/rxDG63ERUE

Bittersweet to see David Peak’s Corpsepaint as one of the Grim Reader’s top books of 2018, as @AdrianShotbolt announces his retirement from reviewing. Good luck, Adrian, and thanks! \m/ twitter.com/AdrianShotbolt…

“Nadia Bulkin writes prose like a scalpel, deftly slicing to the beating hearts of her characters and the dilemmas they confront. […] As substantial a debut as I’ve seen, and highly recommended.” —John Langan, author of The Fisherman pic.twitter.com/t90ETDRfhW

“At the heart of Guignol & Other Sardonic Tales is a monster, and it might just be us. The real question is, are you willing to pay the price to find out?” —Maxwell Malone, Heavy Feather Review heavyfeatherreview.org/2018/1…